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The little girl is not fat and mum should not have been sent a letter by jobsworths. Both my son and stepson went through the following stages. They put weight on and then their height increased. This happened several times and both are nearly 6 ft and slim. There is a real danger of children [...]
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Expand Smoke and flames from a seven-storey building in Austin, Texas after a small private plane crashed into it. Photo / AP Shrink Smoke and flames from a seven-storey building in Austin, Texas after a small private plane crashed into it. Photo / AP [...]
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The news stories that shaped the first decade of the new millennium, from terrorism to natural and humanitarian disasters. (Note: These are not ranked in order of importance.) Read more
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The news stories that shaped the first decade of the new millennium, from terrorism to natural and humanitarian disasters. (Note: These are not ranked in order of importance.) Read more
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I know well the joy of sharing with others the cool stuff you find on the Internet (how about I Love Local Commercials? Hilarious) and I also know the woe of an e-mail inbox bulging with forwarded jokes, links, pasted articles and so on. Even when it’s personal –sent just to you — it can [...]
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2:59pm UK, Thursday February 18, 2010 Hannah Thomas-Peter, Sky News Online Kate and Gerry McCann have said they are “pleased and relieved” at a judge’s decision to uphold a ban on a [...]
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HMV has confirmed that it will host an event at its flagship London outlet on Oxford Street to mark the launch of Final Fantasy XIII. Read more
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Buyers are interested in saving a steel plant which will be mothballed this week with the loss of 1,600 jobs, the Prime Minister has said. Read more
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has filed a statement Wednesday — the deadline for California primary ballot statements — with the Secretary of State’s office regarding a run for the office of… Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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Greece’s finance minister said a detailed rescue plan from other European Union nations would be the best way to soothe the crisis over market fears that Greece could default on debt payments. Read more
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KABUL — Now that Abdul Ahad has lost his mother and father, two brothers, two sisters and four other relatives — all killed, he said, by a U.S. rocket — the young farmer is quietly seething over the U.S. and Afghan military offensive in Helmand province. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Eight of 10 U.S. missionaries jailed in Haiti on charges of child abduction were released on their own recognizance Wednesday pending a continuing criminal investigation and possibly a trial in Haitian courts. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist [...]
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NAIROBI — U.N. officials on Wednesday ratcheted up their criticism of U.S. policy in Somalia, declaring that recent restrictions intended to prevent al-Qaeda-linked Somali Islamists from gaining strength are holding up humanitarian aid to some of the world’s most desperate people. Read more
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JERUSALEM — Pressure mounted Wednesday for Israel to respond to speculation that its Mossad spy agency killed a Hamas operative in a Dubai hotel last month, with Britain’s prime minister promising to investigate the use of forged British passports by the alleged assassins and analysts in Israel taking unusual aim at the country’s vaunted undercover [...]
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TONGREN, China (Reuters) – Tibetans living near the birthplace of the Dalai Lama in northwest China welcomed Thursday’s scheduled meeting between their exiled spiritual leader and Barack Obama with a defiant show of fireworks. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama vigorously defended his $787 billion stimulus on Wednesday, insisting it rescued Americans from the worst of the economic calamity and ripping Republican critics who called it a waste. Read more
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Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said there is no proof the Mossad spy agency carried out the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai. Read more
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday it was ready to sell 191.3 tonnes of gold on the market in a bid to reduce its dependence on lending revenue. Read more